What are dreams?
Dreams are those innermost desires that are often locked away in our soul
They express themselves in the form of a dream, because at the heartstrings, they do fiercely pull
At the end of the night, we gently tuck them away
The wish for them to come true, often leads to dismay

The constant struggle between reality and our dream
Creates heartache so extreme
We fight back the tears
We implore God, “I've waited for so many years.”

My life I have lived
Work work work, this I haven't shirked
My body, I have torn in two
Another day I cannot redo

Yet each night my dream doth renew
It, my strength will always pursue
The intensity of reaching, stretching, yet still outside my outstretched fingers
Has got me nothing more than visual creases and unsightly long gray hairs

Why can't I ever obtain this, my one and only goal?
These many years of work have taken their toll!
Each day that quickly slips by
I ask myself this simple question, “Why?”

My heart and soul fill with anguish
This single desire, I do so solemnly cherish
It seems I'll never make my dream come true
This thought makes me feel terribly blue

I’ve dreamt about this so many times
That even my soul now puts my desires into rhymes
They cannot stay hidden for much longer
Their pull now is so much stronger

And thus it but seems
It was their only desire...to escape from the grasp of only being dreams
To rip each fiber apart, at the very seams


Written by:
Jason Cheney
January 2, 2021